Sunday 23 February 2014
Nihilumbra for Wii U official presentation in Madrid.
via @BeautiFunGames
Last Thursday Nintendo flew us to their Showroom in Madrid to present the upcoming version of Nihilumbra for Wii U. Kevin and Aniol introduced the game to many of journalists who were curious about the new features of this release and also the story of our studio. Aside of the technical improvements we added to the PC version, the game for Wii U will have two main new features:
- An asymmetric 2-players cooperative mode.
- Improved controls: The hybrid control mode (analog dpad with buttons and touchscreen). The Wii U GamePad makes this version the most complete to date.
Another World: Rotoscoping & Interview Eric Chahi
via @JesusFabreIn this feature documentary Eric Chahi brings us back in time to the early 90's, when he created the classic Another World (one of the titles that inspired Nihilumbra). The piece is totally worth to see, especially if you are curious about the technical intricacies behind and the cultural influences present in the game.
The huge phenomenon behind Twitch plays Pokemon.
via @truguers
Around the 12th of February an anonymous Twitch user managed to stream the first generation Pokemon game on his Twitch TV channel. But for everyone's surprise, he wasn't the only one who could control the game, since he binded the controls to the stream common chat so anyone attending the stream could participate. Now is when things go crazy up to the point of having around 120.000 users playing the game at a given time (and at least 738.000 have played in total for now). The owner of the stream is moderating the game to avoid trolls, but in general it seems everything goes quite smooth and the community is very cooperative.
The game already generated several memes, like the Helix Fossil one. Due to having so many people trying to control the game, there was an specific item that was constantly kept vainly selected, the so called Helix Fossil. This constant action of consulting that precise item created a wide range of stories and jokes among the community, treating it like it was a holy deity, which the player uses for guidance. The community jokes that the true goal in the game switched to accomplish the usage of that Helix Fossil item in the proper place, that is to revive ancient fossil Pokemon Omanyte, once you get to Cinnabar Island.
Hunting Anubis is a single/multiplayer combat flight sim focusing on near future drone warfare. Currently in a free, open Beta period. Dogfight enemies fully autonomous or remotely manned in the endless fight for the skies of the 21st century.
Here you can download the beta for Windows, Mac or Linxu.
Here you can download the beta for Windows, Mac or Linxu.
Orihaus :: Design, Code, Modeling, Graphics, Enviroments.
Lhasa Mencur :: Music, Audio.
Aliceffekt :: Additional Modeling and Map Design.
Henk Boom and Renaud Bédard :: Waiting For Horus base Code.
A video with every NES game start screen in alphabetical order.
via @JesusFabre
Aside of the logical nostalgic feelings this video will arouse in many old-school gamers, I find really interesting to see how the games were presented twenty to thirty years ago: the music, the aesthetics (logo, colors, shapes, etc).
Here you can check out our previous issue of BeautiFun Weekly: News and Discoveries.
